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单词 units position
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units position
b. attributive with first element in plural form (in sense A. 2) with the sense ‘relating to or representing the units in the expression of a number’, as units digit, units figure, units place, units position, etc.; also in compounds with units' with the same sense, as units' digit, units' place, etc.Cf. quots. 1633, 1705 at Compounds 1a.
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1674 J. Mayne Socius Mercatoris 16 Begin as before with the Unites place, and say, 8 times 6 is 48, set down 8 and carry 4.
1733 H. Gore Vulgar Arithm. Improved 31 I begin with the Units Figure of the Subtractor, and take it from the Units Figure of the Subtrahend.
1750 Q. Mackenzie-Quin Method to multiply or divide Figures 15 The Units Digit, as it neither multiplies nor divides any other Figure,..the Reader is presumed to multiply the Units Line in the Vulgar Way.
1827 Arithm. & Algebra (Libr. Useful Knowl.) 17/2 The term farthest to the left, that is, the units' digit.
1895 Proc. Museums Assoc. 1894 168 The 26th specimen would then be labelled ‘aa’, the tens position of ordinary numeration being occupied by ‘a’, and the units position by ‘a’.
1919 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 48/1 To record the number 1, the bookkeeper made one knot in the units place, two knots for the number two, and so on.
1932 Elem. School Jrnl. 32 600 In the increase-by-one method, when the units' figure of the divisor is 6 or more, the tens' digit is increased by one.
1965 I. Niven Math. of Choice ii. 15 A number is odd if its units digit is odd, i.e. if the digit in the units' place is one of 1, 3, 5,7, 9.
2010 G. J. Lee Professional Cocoa Applic. Security iii. 65 Each letter represents a binary 1 and each hyphen a binary 0, with x in the units position, w in the 2s position and r in the 4s position.
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